Posted on 05/05/2015 4:43:44 PM PDT by Kid Shelleen
I just told my wife. She used to live in Manhattan.
She just laughed.
I'm just a soon-to-be $3.00 subway ride away from TS. If you live in some nice small country town somewhere in the US, perhaps we can do a home or apartment swap? Lol.
I disagree with Ladybird.
You don’t want the view spoiled, buy the property.
Does this include the ball that drops at new years?
That’s a nice thought. Not for now, but maybe one day.
Great big ditto. I’m not real optimistic about our broad-based downward trajectory.
The Uncle Sam I knew must be tied up and locked in a basement somewhere. This is not your auntie’s uncle.
Well, frankly, here’s the situation. Imagine you are 40 years old and you invest the entirety of your life savings in a property overlooking something. Let’s say you sell chickens. Then, all of a sudden, your town’s biggest property owner, and a best friend of the mayor, who also happens to be in the chicken business, puts up a sign in front of your building - because he owns the rights to that space - advertising chickens. Well, it’s not very fair, is it. Or, let’s say, your landlord decides, all of a sudden, to ruin your view or eliminate it completely. One day you have your savings invested in a place with a nice view and the next minute you’ve got the back end of a neon sign to look at. On a different scale, imagine you are a farmer with clear light to the West and all of a sudden it’s covered in BURMA SHAVE ads. And believe it or not that is exactly what has happened in Times Square, with or without the chickens and the Burma Shave. I’ll leave the specifics up to you, but Times Square is no “institution.”
Although it's no cause for celebration, you were right.
Pretty much everything President ODungo has done in the last 7 years has been a series of domestic acts of terrorism.
As a native NYer, I hate the fact that Times Square looks like Tokyo. My brother always sighs: “Mr. Potter won.” In the 50s and 60s and 70s, it was in human scale and still had the most fabulous advertising in America. I don’t support government interference though but would love a sensible return to Times Square - which means: Disney Store, get out!
The best trip was shortly after we had done the THE BALLAD OF MIKE MORAN. On that trip, I got to meet Mike and others and we got to sing and drink together in an Irish pub.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TPfrtngwzjY
This is another 17th Amendment-related issue imo.
"Supposedly, a 2012 law put the crossroads of the world under the restrictions of the 1965 Highway Beautification Act ..."
FR: Never Accept the Premise of Your Opponent’s Argument
The states have never delegated to the feds, expressly via the Constitution, the specific power to regulate, tax and spend for any kind of roads but postal roads (1.8.7). This is evidenced by President James Madison’s veto of the public works bill of 1817, Madison generally regarded as the father of the Constitution.
Veto of federal public works bill
And with all due respect to the family and supporters of the late President Eisenhower, as opposed to Madison’s veto of the public works bill, Eisenhower was wrong to sign the bill that established the nation’s intrastate highway system, just a modern version of the publics works bill, without first leading Congress to successfully petition the states for a highway amendment to the Constitution. But Eisenhower wasn’t the first constitutional firewall that was compromised regarding his national highway system.
Getting back to the 17th Amendment, please consider the following. The Founding States had not only established the federal Senate, but had given the power to vote for federal senators uniquely to state lawmakers. The idea was that senators would protect their states in Congress by killing bills that steal 10th Amendment-protected state powers, such as the power to regulate, tax and spend for highways.
So before Eisenhower even got the bill the Senate should have recognized that the feds have no constitutional authority to build a national highway system and led Congress to petition the states for a highway amendment to the Constitution. I suspect that the states would have supported such an amendment.
But as a consequence of 17A, low-information citizens go home after voting for their favorite federal senators and watch football, clueless that their corrupt senators are working in cahoots with the corrupt House to pass unconstitutional bills, such as vote-winning bills to build highways, such bills based on powers which the states have never delegated to the feds as previously mentioned.
As a further consequence of all of this, the feds are once again unconstitutionally expanding their powers by regulating billboards on Times’s Square. In fact, regardless what FDR’s activist justices wanted everybody to think about the scope of Congress’s Commerce Clause powers when it wrongly decided Wickard v. Filburn in Congress’s favor in 1942 imo, FDR’s thug justices wrongly ignored the following. They ignored that state sovereignty-respecting justices had previously clarified that the states have never delegated to the feds the specific power to regulate intrastate commerce.
”State inspection laws, health laws, and laws for regulating the internal commerce of a State, and those which respect turnpike roads, ferries, &c. are not within the power granted to Congress [emphases added].” —Gibbons v. Ogden, 1824.
The 17th Amendment needs to disappear, and a bunch of corrupt senators along with it.
Whew! Thanks.
Good grief. If that isn’t satire you are on the wrong website.
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